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  • The Moon's a Balloon

    The Guardian’s Number One Hollywood Autobiography

    by David Niven ...
    ONE OF THE BESTSELLING MEMOIRS OF ALL TIME WITH OVER FIVE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEDiscover the heartfelt, laugh-out-loud account of one of Hollywood's greatest actors and, above all, greatest menDebonair English wit and humourist extraordinaire, star of The Pink Panther, Casino Royal and Around the World in 80 Days, few Hollywood actors are remembered as fondly as David Niven.In this ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Bring on the Empty Horses

    by David Niven ...
    David Niven recalls his time in Hollywood during its heyday. He recounts stories and anecdotes of the stars, producers, directors, tycoons and oddballs, many of whom were his friends. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People

    What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It

    Scientists and academics have spent entire careers investigating what makes people happy. But hidden in obscure scholarly journals and reports, their research is all too often inaccessible to ordinary people. Now the bestselling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series distills the scientific findings of over a thousand of the most important studies on happiness into easy-to-digest nuggets of ... Read more

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  • The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People

    What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It

    What are the keys to success? Scientists have studied the traits, beliefs, and practices of successful people in all walks of life. But the answers they find wind up in stuffy academic journals aimed at other scientists.The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People takes the best and most important research results from over a thousand studies and spells out the key findings in ways we can all ... Read more

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  • Bring on the Empty Horses (Hodder Great Reads

    by David Niven ...
    Here is Niven at his best. He and Errol Flynn were filming The Charge of the Light Brigade for a director, Michael Curtiz, 'whose Hungarian-orientated English was a joy to us all'. High on the rostrum he decided the moment had come to order the arrival on the scene of a hundred riderless chargers. "Okay," he yelled into a megaphone, "Bring on the empty horses!" 'BRING ON THE EMPTY HORSES is the ... Read more

    $13.71 CAD

  • 100 Simple Secrets of Healthy People

    What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use it

    Series series 100 Simple Secrets
    The Simple Science of a Healthy LifeFrom fitness to diets to emotional health and longevity, what do people who feel and look healthy do differently than those who are overtired, depressed, or out of shape? Every day we face an avalanche of studies and statistics that tell us what we should or shouldn't eat, how long we need to exercise, or how to protect ourselves from secondhand smoke and the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • It's Not About the Shark

    The Simple Path from Problem to Answer

    by David Niven ...
    In the spirit of The Tipping Point and Freakonomics, David Niven presents a new way of decoding the riddles of the everyday choices we make.It's Not About the Shark opens the door to the groundbreaking science of solutions by turning problems—and how we solve them—upside down. When we have a problem, most of us zero in, take it apart, and focus until we have it solved. David Niven shows us that ... Read more

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  • 100 Simple Secrets of Great Relationships

    What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It

    What are the essential qualities of a great relationship? What do people in healthy and happy relationships do differently? Scientists and academics have spent entire careers investigating the nature of relationships, dating, and marriage, yet their findings are inaccessible to ordinary people, hidden in obscure journals read only by other academics. Now the bestselling author of the 100 Simple ... Read more

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  • Up!

    A Pragmatic Look at the Direction of Life: 365 Ways Today Is the Best Time to Be Alive

    Insufficient healthcare coverage, a weakened economy, the fragile environment—most people would be hard pressed to find even one example of how things are better today than they were yesterday. How about one for each day of the year?In his engaging and informative new book, Up!, David Niven, the best-selling author of the 100 Simple Secrets series (more than a million copies sold in the U.S. alone ... Read more

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  • 100 Simple Secrets of Happy Families

    What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It

    Series Book 4 - 100 Simple Secrets
    The Simple Science of a Happy FamilyFrom raising children to getting along with in-laws, what do people with close and loving families do differently than those with strained or unfulfilling relationships? Sociologists, therapists, and psychiatrists have spent entire careers investigating the ins and outs of family dynamics, yet their findings are inaccessible to ordinary people, hidden in obscure ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Moon's a Balloon

    by David Niven ...
    Narrated by David Niven ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 13 min

    David Niven is remembered as one of Britain's best-loved actors. The archetypal English gentleman, he starred in over ninety films. He is equally remembered as the author of this classic autobiography.In his first volume, he remembers his childhood and school days, his time at Sandhurst and his early army service. He recalls America during the prohibition era and days in Hollywood before the ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Bring on the Empty Horses

    by David Niven ...
    Narrated by David Niven ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 31 min

    David Niven is remembered as one of Britain's best-loved actors. The archetypal English gentleman, he starred in over ninety films. He is also one of Hollywood's finest chroniclers.In this second volume, David Niven turns his attention to 'The Great Days of Hollywood' between 1935 and 1960. These were times of legendary film stars and despotic producers, of tycoons, of oddballs, and of classic ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD